I have found Alan Derschowitz´s claims for the use of
torture to be at best, naive, and worst, simply appalling.
He continues in the same vein in this column,
wanting now to rip the Geneva conventions. The reason
being that as torture and murder committed by American
soldiers and agents can´t be wrong, it must be the
international laws that are wrong! They must be torn
so that Americans can torture and kill with good
conscience, and because that the US shouldn´t have
to in the future suffer humiliation because these
kinds of actions. Stopping committing atrocities
is not a possibility to Derschowitz, who seems to
be a living embodiment of "my country, right or wrong"
style of thinking.

The reasons he gives for destroying the Geneva
and Haag conventuons show his lack of knowledge of
the basic history of the world during the last century,
because they are nothing new. States and inviduals who
have broken the Geneva and Haag treaties have been saying
the same things since the time of their signing.
According to people like Derschowitz´s, it´s
not the criminal that´s guilty, but the law he´s
broken. Not a very uncommon claim in any court room.

American simplicity at it´s worst. "We must have the
right to do whatever we think is necessary to guarantee
our victory, because we are the good guys!" But no side
in any conflict has ever thought of themselves as the
bad guys. All have always been fighting for good and
noble reasons, and every atrocity has always had it´s
supporters.